cosmic microwave

I have looked at some maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background, such as the one in the Wikipedia article on the CMB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background I wonder why the Milky way is not visible as a smudge across the cosmic equator. Do these microwaves pass right through a...

These guys claim to have found a systematic error in WMAP data analysis performed to date. Basically, they claim that there is a bias introduced as the number of observations of a given region increases: the more observations, the higher the resulting indicated temperature. The number of...